hello can we use this in RPG Maker MV?
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I just bought ALL your sets and also want to use them in MV. But as soon as I opened them up in an image editor I realized that some tiles (auto-tiles and animated water tiles mainly) would be a lot of work to adapt myself.
I could do it of course, but now that I've read: "Getting my tiles properly set up to work with RPG Maker is a planned feature for the near future!", I wonder if it'd be better to perhaps wait?
It would depend on how far of this "near future" is, I guess? Is it like a month, two months, half a year or longer? And is that estimate just for this pack or all of your packs? I understand you might not be able to give an exact month or date, but if you could be a wee bit more specific that would be much appreciated!
Thanks.
First of all, thank you so much for choosing my sets 💚
Due to current commitments, it will be at least the middle of April before I can start work on getting my assets RPG Maker ready. It is the top priority for me now because it gets requested a lot! The plan is to start with the Rural Village set and work my way through in order from most to least popular.
Honestly, if you have experience adapting tiles to work with RPG Maker, I'd love to pick your brain a little bit because making stuff for the auto-tile system confuses me so much.
I can tell you that the auto-tile format for VX/VX Ace, and MV/MZ, are pretty close to identical (XP is quite different).
However, the four auto-tile types have different dimensions and rules for utilization; only A1 is animated and I believe the limit is sixteen animated tiles.
Yes, the pixel size for XP/VX/Ace is 32*32, whilst MV is 48*48, and MZ has the option to select tile size now, or at least, this was a planned update from January.
Well for starters, MV/MZ's animated tiles (Such as water and waterfalls for example) only have 3 frames, but it's possible to squeeze out 4 frame animation by formatting an object as a "character" and setting up a move route that turns it in the four different directions (up, left, right, down). Although, to make animations beginner friendly, keeping to the 3 frame auto-tile format is probably best for most objects.
When it comes to furniture and objects meant to be placed along walls I think it's best to center them vertically on 3 tiles even if the object only takes up 2 tiles. reason being is that it'll look much better (like it's up against the wall), but this is assuming that there is enough space to do so in the B~E tile sheets. There are scripts that can do the same thing without "wasting" precious space in your tile sheets, but you'd have to assume not everyone would be using those.
When it comes to the Vx/MV/MZ, the auto-tile format is pretty bad. It's very compact, and therefore you sometimes have to crop more complex patterns for it to work. As a workaround, it is possible to use the A5 tile sheet for more complex patterns if they're difficult or impossible to fit into the auto-tile format, as these tiles are drawn on the same layer. But the A5 sheet is pretty small and placing tiles there will make them normal tiles, not auto-tiles. It is an option you have though for certain ground/wall patterns.
As for how the MV/MZ auto tiles work. Here's some resources that should explain it :
Official RPG maker blog: https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/blog/classic-tutorial-how-autotiles-work
Random YouTube video (~30min) explaing the VxAce format (it's the same as in later engines):